fossil-director 1.0

fossil director

Fossil Director

Fossil-director is an HTTP server used to host multiple Fossil repositories, based on the hostname.

The server is meant to run behind nginx or other reverse proxy. Fossil-director will inspect the incoming HTTP Host: header and dispatch to the configured fossil repository.

Installation

(Requires Python >= 3.8)

pip install fossil-director

Configuration

A configuration .ini is required. At minimum, define a hostname and path to the fossil repository:

[example.com]
repo = /path/to/repo.fossil

Each virtual host is a new section. Here are all of the options:

[foo.org]
repo = /other/path.fossil
repolist = false                  # if repo is a directory, set this to true to serve 
                                  # a directory index of fossil files
baseurl = http://foo.org/fossil/  # base url
args = --nodelay --acme           # extra arguments to the `fossil http` command
redirect_root = /some/other/path  # redirect requests for / to the given URI

By default, the server runs on port 7000. Here are the server options:

[server]
host = 127.0.0.1
port = 7000
fossil_cmd = /usr/local/bin/fossil  # path to fossil executable

Running

fossil-director /path/to/config.ini

Here's an example systemd service